143ksk Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 Nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 Was in a Lorna frame of mind tonight. Turns out that I misplaced one. Gotta look for it around tonight now I've never seen all those issues together! Outstanding! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciorac Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 Was in a Lorna frame of mind tonight. Turns out that I misplaced one. Gotta look for it around tonight now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
selegue Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 Was in a Lorna frame of mind tonight. Turns out that I misplaced one. Gotta look for it around tonight now I think you know where to look for the missing issue now, Scrooge. Down south. Great group shot! Jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doohickamabob Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 After a couple years of slowly searching and adding, I recently completed a full run of the sci-fi/horror comics released by Youthful Magazines from 1950 to 1953. For whatever reason, the publisher changed the titles as follows: Captain Science (#1-#7), Fantastic (#8-#9), Beware (#10-#12), and Chilling Tales (#13-#17). Here's the group shot: A few interesting things about this run: -- Most of the comics have a stark red/yellow/green color scheme, giving them a bright poster-paint quality. -- Most of the comics tout their feature story in a postage-stamp sized box at the bottom, though there's a lull in the middle of the run where the featured title is just floating on its own. -- The Captain Science run alternates red and yellow titles and background (with one exception -- the green title of issue #5) -- The covers of Captain Science #3 and #4 are swipes of Wings #94 and (to a lesser extent) #91. Anyone know the story behind that? Was it done with permission or was it outright theft? -- Captain Science #6 and #7 have Wally Wood/Joe Orlando covers, ranking them with other Wood/Orlando covers of the period like Avon's "Rocket to the Moon" and "Space Detective." -- With Fantastic, the covers get a lot greener and the shift from sci-fi to horror is complete. From that point on, all the titles have a skull-and-crossbones. -- Beware #10 has the only white title -- and exclamation point -- of the run (not a big deal, but it looks kinda neat as the centerpiece of the photo). -- After Beware #12 the title was continued by another publisher, Trojan, with the same font/design and numbering (perhaps to cheat on postal codes). If anybody knows the story behind this split-off, please chime in. My hunch is that one of the main writers or publishers had creative differences and left Youthful Magazines, taking the title with him. The Trojan run of Beware comics is also cool, with issue #10 featuring a classic Frank Frazetta cover. -- Three of the Chilling Tales covers are by Matt Fox, formerly a pulp cover artist for Weird Tales (alongside Margaret Brundage). These are the only covers he ever did for comic books, effectively tying William Ekgren in ratio of impact to output. I think Fox went on to do inking for Batman or something. I love his style -- it's very childlike, if your child is Eddie Munster. -- Matt Fox's three covers are the few in the run to cheat the red/yellow/green pattern by including lots of blue/purple and more textured backgrounds, with wispy clouds and smoke. -- With Chilling Tales #14, the skull-and-crossbones stops playing peek-a-boo behind the letter "C" and emerges in front of the "C." -- I found Chilling Tales #16 about ten times harder to acquire than all the other issues in the run. I suspect the "Mark of the Beast" bondage/ghoul/hell-pit cover is a prime factor in the issue's scarcity. I can imagine this comic being among those burnt by parents during the days of the anti-comics senate hearings. -- The horror stories in these comics are GREAT -- that is to say, creepy as all get-out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 That's one heck of a run you have there and it seems to be in grade too Real congrats on completing the run! These aren't easy books to find Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porcupine48 Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 That's amazingly cool!Right on,thank you for sharing... are you going to post any interior? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porcupine48 Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 Again man,really,very cool... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
143ksk Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G.A.tor Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrJerkberg-migration Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 The first 3 issues of Chilling are absolute stunners, your copies look pretty sweet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrightson fan Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 Gorgeous!!!! You have very good taste! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inaflash Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 That's one of the best looking group shots. The colors just pop out at you. Nice (thumbs u Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Straw-Man Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 That's one of the best looking group shots. The colors just pop out at you. Nice (thumbs u Ken agreed; beautiful array of funny-books. well done, sir. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doohickamabob Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 That's amazingly cool!Right on,thank you for sharing... are you going to post any interior? Hey everybody, thanks for the positive responses. I appreciate it. In regard to your question about interiors, I have some left-over images from some dupes I sold a while back. Here are a few. The following are from Captain Science #4. I find the stories and art comparable to Planet Comics or Strange Adventures from around the same time period. The following panels are from Chilling Tales #13. One of the stories was drawn by Matt Fox, who also did the cover. The next are from Chilling Tales #15. Imagine what kinds of nightmares the kids who read this ended up having. Maybe I should move this over to the pre-code horror thread. This is my favorite panel (lots of neck eating going on in these comics): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicdonna Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 Very cool books! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comicdey Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 those aren't your momma's comics....very nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 What a spectacular set! I'm a big fan of Youthful and enjoyed reading your notes! (thumbs u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciorac Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 I'm frightened after seeing those panels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buttock Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 Thanks for sharing the interior shots! Captain Science 4 looks like a keeper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
